All screenshots of Google Theme (iGoogle)

I believe that all of you already knew about iGoogle (formally known as “Google Personalized Home Page”) and its gorgeous themes. The interesting thing is that those theme can be changed dynamically based on either local time or weather.

There are six different themes as picture above in iGoogle. ( Actually, there are 7 themes available but “Winter scape” is a hidden theme which can’t be directly accessed. ) All of those themes are divided into 2 categories such as Weathe-based theme and Time-based theme. The weather-based theme is a theme which shows the different design based on local weather condition. For example, we will see raining theme if it’s raining in our location. The time-based theme does the same but based on local time. For example, we will see night-view theme at night.

Weather-base theme

BusStop

Time-base theme

Spring Scape

Beach

City Scape

Sweet Dreams

Tea House

Seasonal Scape

The BusStop theme is based on local weather condition while all others are on time.

The reason why I write this post is that I wanna share something that I found on iGoogle last weekend. The story started when I was eagerly to know how many pictures included in each theme. I didn’t know how to find out for those images. The first flash I got is that Google Gadget are created based on XML file. So, I believed that I will get the path of those images when I got the link of XML file. Then, I googled a lit for that and I found the list of xml files as below.

The following code is cool trick that I got from this link. Go to XML file (that I already mentioned above). Find out the path of CSS file. Type the code with the path of CSS file that you wanna changed.

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